Life of Pi nominated for 11 Oscars & 9 BAFTAs

UPDATE (2/24/13): Mychael Danna of Life of Pi won the Oscar forMusic/Original Score!

UPDATE (2/24/13): Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott of Life of Pi won the Oscar for Visual Effects!!

UPDATE (2/24/13): Claudio Miranda of Life of Pi won the Oscar for Cinematography!

UPDATE (2/10/13): Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer, and Donald R. Elliotof Life of Pi won the BAFTA for Special Visual Effects!

UPDATE (2/10/13): Claudio Mirandaof Life of Pi won the BAFTA for Cinematography!

UPDATE (1/13/13):Mychael Danna of Life of Pi won the Golden Globe forBest Original Score – Motion Picture!

Life of Pi 少年Pi的奇幻漂流 is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Taiwanese Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee 李安. It is based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Yann Martel. Life of Pi tells a story of a 16-year old boy named Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, who survives a shipwreck in which his family dies when moving from India to Canada, and is stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Based on an adapted screenplay by David Magee and stars Suraj Sharma as Pi, the film has many scenes of Taiwan. The film crew began their principal photography in India for two weeks or so, and then moved to Taiwan for five and half months. Animals from the Taipei Zoo臺北市立動物園 were used in the film, the ocean scenes of the film were shot at a giant wave tank built by the crew in an abandoned airport in Taichung 台中, and the island and beach scenes were shot in Kenting National Park 墾丁國家公園 in Pingtung 屏東, where Ang Lee was born.

Upon release, the film was met with critical appreciation. It was announced that the film had earned 11 Academy Awards nominations, including the following categories: